Starship needs to be competitive with Falcon 9 on a per-launch basis in order to be an economically viable replacement, and full reuse is a hard requirement to meeting that goal. Without that ...

Humanity has always looked up at the stars, whispering dreams into the void. But in the 21st century, those dreams are turning into countdowns, rocket engines, and mission patches. We're entering a ...

The White House plan to kill the cutting-edge Orion spacecraft, shown here, and the Space Launch System super-rocket could halt NASA's ability to land astronauts on the Moon in the late 2020s, even as ...

(TNS) — Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA did manage to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back to moon. Teams completed the stacking of the Orion spacecraft atop ...

As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans. Neither has specified those plans publicly, but a recent update from SpaceX ...

NASA's Artemis program, which plans to return Americans to the surface of the Moon, depends pretty heavily on being able to actually land on the Moon. Unlike the old Apollo program, this time around ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a ...